Re: where is /dev/mouse???
*- On 1 Jan, Kris Prieb wrote about "where is /dev/mouse???"
> Here is my problem. I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 on my Pentium II machine and have begun to install and configure X. When I try to execute 'startx' I get the error output listed below. It appears that 'startx' requires the device file '/dev/mouse' I think this file was supposed to have been created during my Debian installation but somehow it wasn't. Anyone know where I slipped up during the installation and whether or not I can correct the problem without reinstalling? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[ick, your mailer doesn't wrap your lines]
/dev/mouse is not a real device file. It should just be a symbolic link
to your real mouse device. Since you are telling it you have a ps/2
mouse you can either make the link from /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux or just
tell it to use /dev/psaux and forget about the /dev/mouse link. If you
want to use the /dev/mouse link then do the following as root.
cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s psaux mouse
Brian Servis
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